"Huber has the same prosecutorial tools available to him that Mueller had."

Do we know, for a fact, that Huber was formally appointed as a special counsel? I went looking for an appointment letter, and all I could find was the material FOIA'd by American Oversight, discovered long after the DoJ had insisted Huber's instructions were entirely verbal. From what I can find, it sounds like Huber was not officially installed as a Special Counsel, but rather tasked with examining certain issues in order to determine whether or not a Special Counsel was needed. Has he made that determination and actually been endowed with SC perks and authorities, like appointing his own team of lawyers, his own dedicated budget etc.? Or his he just working out of his usual office with his usual staff, along with his other usual duties?

As recently as this past December, it sounds as though Huber has done almost nothing that looks like an active Special Counsel investigation. Notwithstanding the Russia Collusion hysteria in the press, surely someone on the conservative side of the journalistic aisle would have been curious enough to make some inquiries or keep a watch for possible interviews. It's not like a the roster of players was entirely unknown entity.

Without a formal appointment as special counsel, Huber would simply be doing his thing as a US Attorney, and wouldn't be speaking about it. If I had to guess, neither Huber nor any other US Attorney will come out with more than illegal leaking indictments at the minnow level. No way, the Clintons, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Schiff, Comey or even McCabe will be perp walked.

Ignatz, I agree the a US Attorney has a greater scope of investigative authority. But a US Attorney does not have a special counsel's budget. Huber has things to do other than trying to put the big kahunas of the Obama Administration behind bars.

No way, the Clintons, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Schiff, Comey or even McCabe will be perp walked.

Oh ye of little faith. I don’t think Trump and his team share your Eeyorish opinion. It will be a colossal failure on Trump’s part if the crimes of the Obama administration resulting in the greatest political scandal in US history do not receive justice. I can’t see Trump letting them get away with what they did to him and his family.

Back from Publix and saw replies to my Salina comment which was, of course, tongue in cheek. That said, I lived in Salina as a kid, my freshman and sophomore year. Dad was deputy base commander at Schilling AFB and it was the first time I ever had a Dr. Pepper, which seemed to be the drink of the prairie:)

I don't believe there isn't a DC democrat/bureaucrat elitist who would last one week in July or August:) I think only some tough ass individualist (i.e. a patriotic conservative) will last there. It is not the same kind of heat and humidity of the DC swamp. Now, I know someone will look at the current party affiliations of the citizens and their government. So remember my "in jest" qualification.

So, it is not appropriate to call Huber a Special Counsel, and while he may have fewer restrictive parameters, as a U.S. Attorney, he does not have the power to set up his own independent shop, with an independent budget, and hiis own handpicked string of attorneys dedicated to solely to the issues outlined by former AG Sessions.

I'll stipulate to the fact that Huber will be the designated prosecutor who will handle legal proceedings referred to him by Horowitz. Horowitz can only recommend indictments, not pursue them in the first place, soo there's nothing particularly expansive about that. In line with Ignatz observation, IG, Horowitz has a whole additional set of constraints that would not affect either a SC or USAtty, In other words, he has the most limited set of powers, of all. The question is whether Huber has been tasked to generate indictments himself, or simply opine on whether investigations are merited.

It certainly appears to be the latter to me, especially considering the apparent lack of related investigative activity. Given the fact that Sessions made it clear, early on, that he had no appetite for pursuing Clinton, along with the rather non-commital form of the various letters turned up by Extraneus and me, I don't think we're going to see much of import actually generated by Huber's office. If we're lucky, Atty Gen'l Barr will change all that, but as it stands, I suspect that there is not any major investigation of Clinton et al, aimed toward possible indictments, currently underway. Outside of the Horowitz report, it seems like everything else is still under consideration.

What I'd like to see if Mueller testifies is that some minor detail of his testimony doesn't precisely match something in his report and it leads to a pre-dawn raid on his house. It'll never happen, but we can dream...

As far as I know, Barr hasn't uttered Huber's name in public, and his statement that he was going to set up a task force (I can't find the quote and every link even on DuckDuckGo is to a lib site with their hair on fire) implies that Huber didn't investigate extensively enough. I assume he's part of the task force, and must have at least done something.

BTW in one of the Trump tweets I linked earlier Trump mentioned there were 49 FBI agents working for Mueller. Since Mueller was conducting a Counter Intel investigation I assume the large majority those 49 agents were CI agents. I obviously have no idea how many of those 49 are patriots and how many are allied with the Obama criminal cabal. What would be nice to know is when they were assigned to Muellers SC team.

Wray became FBI Director on August 2, 2017. That date is also the date of Rosenstein’s expansed scope letter to Mueller. We know Peter Strzok got fired from the Mueller team sometime in early August 2017. August 16, 2017 is when Strzok’s firing was made public.

If those 49 FBI agents were assigned to Mueller AFTER Rosenstein added scope to the Mueller SC and AFTER Strzok was fired, I think they were the ones who served as the official conduit between the Mueller SC and the Horowitz IG investigation.

Mueller was never waiting for Manafort. He knew in 2 days there was no
“Collusion” because Weissman knew. The next phase was to rig the election, which he succeeded in doing, and the final phase was to rig 2020 which Barr ended.

You are a lawyer correct? Can you explain to me how Mueller could have ended the SC investigation prior to 2018 midterms while he still had ongoing cases in progress working their way thru the judicial process?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 former federal prosecutors say in a new letter that President Donald Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice for his acts if he were anyone other than president.

The letter was signed by more than 370 ex-prosecutors who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations. It was released by Protect Democracy, a nonprofit organization critical of the Trump administration. ...

How could AP have missed details about the group that pushed this little tidbit:

If you are a former federal prosecutor and would like to add your name below, click here. Protect Democracy will update this list daily with new signatories.

This is a joint website of United to Protect Democracy and the Protect Democracy Project:

[Image of an "Impeach Trump" button copied from the headline of the United to Protect Democracy website]

Of course, the Associated Press may not be interested in revealing the true interests of those pushing AP’s narrative.

Today, it was my true honor to present the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy—for the second year in a row, to the @ArmyWP_Football Black Knights. Congratulations once again on your historic victories, and keep on making us proud! pic.twitter.com/nGOC4PQn6S

There is NO social media platform that the left won't ruin. Twitter does allow you to block people, except if you are a Republican elected official.There is apparently a law that says elected officials cannot block private citizens.

So Trump can't block those bot brothers, or anyone else. However, I notice that Representative Cohen has blocked a bunch of people who were mocking his fried chicken stunt, and Twitter seems ok with that.

Double standards, as usual.

I post the President's tweets here so that people don't get suckered into reading the vile comments he gets. However, when there is a video I have to use the embed feature, and then the comments show up.

If you have a Twitter account, you can block some of the regular nasty people and they won't show up when you read comments on his tweets.

I'd be willing to bet that @Jack curates DJT's tweets long enough for the Krassenstein brothers to be alerted, write their retorts, and then posts them both with a fixed time difference, or slight randomizer.

Wouldn't shock me in the least that this would be a "service" Jack offered.

No. I want to read those bot comments to see where the left is coming from. I read a lot of their websites for that reason. Do not dismiss them but understand them. That is how you develop your strategy and tactics to take them out.

So here is the MS paint color chart showing where the color sample was taken.
According to the RGB values the sampled color is slightly more blue-green than the grey color box next to the black color box.

On my monitor with both my retinas the sampled color is slightly more blue-green than the grey color box.

Are we getting slightly a little anal retentive on the shoe color? If I see it as Pink and White on all levels, why should I care if not? I am not going to bomb an Iranian missile site protected by gray bushes.

Good afternoon! I've been busy at the grocery store and Walmart re-stocking the cupboards and refrigerator. Now I'm sitting on the porch watching the baby otters swim.
Hubby had a dental emergency this morning and went to our dentist in Bangor. They were talking politics and hubby said,so styrofoam is banned in Maine. The dentist and his assistant laughed and said,she (the new governor) spent LePage's surplus in one month. We are going to enjoy the peace and quiet of the woods and try to ignore state politics.